Laptop won't hibernate - No active partition?

Shrimply

Hi guys,

I have a new Acer TravelMate, the hard drive set-up is a little mysterious to me. I know it has a separate 20GB SSD drive which is used as cache. And also that it has Windows 8 somewhere on a recovery partition should I wish to install it.



The problem is, despite hibernate being enabled, all it does is go to the lock screen ( it has fingerprint unlocking which works around 50% of the time). Having done some googling it appears the problem is usually related to an incorrectly assigned active partition. What is strange, is that there doesn't seem to be an active partition at all.

Just looking for a little advice really as how to go about correcting it. I'm slightly concerned that marking a partition as active may mess up the caching using the SSD drive or something.

Thanks

AndyPix

http://cdrussell.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/windows-7-attempting-to-hibernate.html

Shrimply

Thanks, that seems to have worked. Feel a bit daft I hadn't found that solution myself.

Strange thing is it seems like automounting was already enabled but having disabled it and re-enabled it all is working fine. Nice there was an easy solution for a change :T

Shrimply

Well I appear to have got excited to quickly, this has not solved my problem. If anyone has any other thoughts they would be much appreciated.